In the Daily White House Press Briefing, this afternoon, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Jason Furman tried to put a happy face on the grim CBO report that predicted Obamacare would reduce the workforce by about 2 million workers by 2017.
He told reporters that the law would not reduce the hours being offered by employers.
Instead, Furman said, ObamaCare allowed greater “choice” — for workers to scale back their hours to spend more time with their children, or to leave their jobs to launch a small business or startup.
“This is not businesses cutting back on jobs. This is people having new choices,” Furman said.
Furman took questions from the very skeptical WH press corps.
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